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Content type: News & Analysis

Taming Pegasus: A Way Forward on Surveillance Tech Proliferation

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Hong Kong computes images from DNA samples to publicly shame litterbugs

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Facial recognition fails at forensic reliability

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Beijing installs facial recognition to deter toilet paper theft

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FBI facial recognition database proceeds without oversight

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Databases of facial images proliferate

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Facial payment systems develop apace in China

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Myanmar suspends rights protections and rolls out "Safe City" camera surveillance system

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Belarus installs facial recognition surveillance system

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Hong Kong protests become digital arms race against authorities

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Hong Kong protesters cut down and study the city's smart lampposts

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Hong Kong authorities have access to AI facial recognition software

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Facial recognition increases risk for Hong Kong street protesters

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Hong Kong protesters and police engage in digital arms race

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Russian police track protesters and leak data to black market

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US law enforcement have access to vast networks of surveillance cameras

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US law enforcement uses surveillance technologies to track Capitol insurrectionists

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US activists and Congressional Democrats demand Trump administration cease surveilling peaceful protesters

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Can a Covid-19 face mask protect you from facial recognition technology too?

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US sports trial facial recognition admissions systems

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NIST study finds facial recognition algorithms struggle to identify masked faces

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France tests AI tools to detect mask compliance

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Facewatch: the Reality Behind the Marketing Discourse

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Researchers scrape social media for masked faces to train AI models

Thermographic camera display at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
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Infrared temperature screening

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Your NEW guide to surveillance human rights standards is here

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10 threats to migrants and refugees

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Clearview AI offers to help US federal and state agencies with contact tracing

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China: Guangzhou installs temperature and identity-checking tablet on buses

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Researchers scraped videos of transgender vloggers off YouTube without their knowledge to train facial recognition software